The Official Olympic Thread

[Buzzo]

On the Olympics, Newsnight was trying to put a downer on the whole 'legacy' side of it by saying that most of the sports we have done well in (rowing, horse dancing etc) were not available to the masses (using inner city London as an example).

Seemed a bit early to be trying to put a downer on everything - even by our medias standards...

[Chazza]

Nicola Adams fight just about to start

[Liverpel]

Britain's Katie Taylor is boxing in 5 minutes.

[Liverpel]

IRATE Katie Taylor fans took to Twitter today to vent their fury at a claim in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the champion boxer is British.

The Telegraph ran a preview of today’s semi final match with the question “Can anyone beat Britain’s Katie Taylor, the most technically proficient attacking boxer in the world?”

The gaffe was the top trend on Twitter today.

“Oh, come on! Daily Telegraph,” tweeted comedian Dara O’Briain. RTE presenter Ella McSweeney said: “Team GB losing the run of itself.”

Marykate Dawson tweeted: “I’d say Katie Taylor would get sick if she knew she was being referred to as ‘British’.

Gav Hatch said: “They already try to claim Irish golfers as British. They claimed boxers in the past. Now the Daily Telegraph says Katie Taylor is British!”

And Fergus Murphy said: “Dear Daily Telegraph. Katie Taylor is IRISH. However, please feel free to claim Ronan Keating, Jedward, Louis Walsh...”

[Pablo]

Oh just saw your other post

[Chazza]

Good performance by Adams, into the final.

[Liverpel]

Nice one Katie. Won 17-9 to go into tomorrow's final.

[Imy]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pxbTcvl28&"]London Olympics 2012: Australia loses gold dignity to Britain - YouTube[/ame]

[Liverpool]

I really dont care about the football, and knew it was coming at the back end of the season, going to be a massice hole in my life once these games finish

[McDermotX]

Britain's Katie Taylor is boxing in 5 minutes.

More bandwaggoners here

[Gibbo]

This iceland Hungary handball game is exciting

[Gibbo]

Icaland have took the keeper of and brought an extra player on, free throw with 20 seconds left

[Pablo]

This BMX looks fun, they should have a "Paperboy" event, that'd

[Pablo]

Points scored for every letterbox hit

[Boogs]

Some woman stacked it hard on the BMX course